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Title: Life expectancy in the U.S. varies widely by region, in some places is decreasing
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The Washington Post
URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio ... 2011/06/13/AGdHuZVH_story.html
Published: Jun 15, 2011
Author: David Brown
Post Date: 2011-06-15 22:05:50 by lucysmom
Keywords: Third World Here We Come, Spend More Get Less
Views: 11212
Comments: 28
Large swaths of the United States are showing decreasing or stagnating life expectancy even as the nation’s overall longevity trend has continued upwards, according to a county-by-county study of life expectancy over two decades. snip The region where life expectancy is lowest, and in some places declining, begins in West Virginia, runs through the southern Appalachian Mountains and west through the Deep South into North Texas. Places of high life expectancy are more scattered. In addition to Northern Virginia they include counties in Colorado, Minnesota, Utah, California, Washington state and Florida. snip What surprised Murray and his team was that despite increased consciousness about disparities and per capita spending on health care that is at least 50 percent higher than European countries, the United States is falling farther behind them with each passing year. “My expectation was that in the last decade we would at least be keeping up in terms of the pace of progress. But that’s not what’s happening,” said Murray. snip The county-based life expectancy for men ranged from 65.9 years in Holmes County, Miss., to 81.1 years in Fairfax County. Women had the longest life expectancy in Collier County , Fla., which includes Naples (86 years) and the shortest in Holmes County, Miss. (73.5 years). Among states, Mississippi fares the worst. Of its 82 counties, 26 had life expectancies for men in 2007 that were roughly 66 to 69 years. The most striking trend was the slowing of life expectancy in women. From 1987 to 1997, there were 314 counties with either a loss of life expectancy or no growth in it. From 1997 to 2007 there were 860 counties in which that was the case.
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#1. To: lucysmom (#0)
so what you are saying then is that those areas are doing a better job getting rid of their lazy while the liberals in the rest of the country carry those who can't carry themselves?
"Thats because your basically and idiot." Maybe Social Security won't be a problem after all.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Sounds almost Christian doesn't it.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
What a hoot. The obesity rate in America varies dramatically by region as well. There is a correlation. When I used do a lot of business in Japan, the number one request of my Japanese guests was: "take me to see the poor fat people". No other country in the world has poor fat people. And you want to give them more handouts. It's sick and wrong.
Wrong again.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
How much to you weigh??? I'll bet way too much
It's not smart to ask women that question.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Socialized medicine is killing people, and ruining the economy. Repeal Obamneycare, Bush prescription death panel pharmacies, and Medicare. These old people who are dying were raised on leaded gas, CO2 and carbon monoxide, but the socialists have reduced these vital nutrients to such low levels, that only people living near a major freeway interchange like the beltway and I95 in northern Virginia can survive. Save the geezers, bring back muscle cars!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Well Japan doesn't have to worry about increasing it's average life expectancy now.
You liberals never have actually cared about human life, as this demonstrates clearly, Goofy. Thanks!
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Maybe the Japanese can hunt American land whales?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
So your side - the so called conservatives - show you care for life by not doing anything to care for someone's life..... It is caring to step over people because by not helping them yo force them to help themselves - until of course they die from lack of health care.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Ayn Randian rugged individualism... I'm waiting for that concept to take hold in the military.
We care about our families and friends, not politicians who want to steal our money so that we can't take care of our families. It's just that simple.
...It's lucysmom. Perfect, don't you think?
And they come in all different colors too!!!
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
So is that because they are too lazy/stupid, or is it because the government has driven up the price of healthcare so much from all their stupid regulations???
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
I guess it all depends on the way of living or the lifestyle.
Like medical training for doctors? How do you explain the lower cost of medical care in countries with universal and/or single payer health insurance? Do those countries have less government regulation?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
It is caring to step over people because by not helping them yo force them to help themselves - until of course they die from lack of health care. Godwincing, Yes, we know. You can quote absurd, basely DNC talking point memo's. got ANYTHING thats fact based to support this drivel? Nope. Run along.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
That's half the story, the other half is access to medical care, for instance it is estimated that a third of people with diabetes in Mississippi are undiagnosed. Do you think it's a coincidence that Mississippi has the lowest life expectancy in the country and also the highest rate of uninsured?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Yea, You filth of a Republican. Republicans don't support universal health care thus not caring if people don't have health care they can afford.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
You want to go back to the days of unregulated health practices? When snake oil salesmen were free to sell their wares as cure alls? How about when they used radiation to cure ear infections? In the 1950s - not that long ago - that was what they came up with before regulations were put in place. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2002/03/20-ebert.htm "I had radiation for an ear infection in the fifties," says Ebert. "At that time it was still common to treat acne, earaches, and other head and neck problems with high levels of radiation we now know are dangerous. As a result there's a little epidemic of people in my age group who are developing this type of problem." [Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert] cautions that, "If there's anyone reading this who remembers having a radioactive gun aimed at them when they were a child, they might ask their doctor to look at the levels of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in their blood tests." PS: Germans UBER regulate their country's medical system and they are over performing in terms of quality and lower costs (the French system, too).
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
I remember when shoe stores used fluoroscopy to check the fit of shoes. I wonder if a study has ever been done to determine health risks.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
I asked my doctor about that a couple of years ago, but he didn't know what I was talking about. Later he said he looked into it and said he couldn't find any research data. According to Mom those machines were in almost every sizable shoe store in the thirties.
The unregulated market will kill you: Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also Pedoscopes, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1960s in the United States (by which time they were prohibited), and into the mid-1970s in the United Kingdom. In the UK, they were known as Pedoscopes, after the company based in St. Albans that manufactured them. Fluoroscopes were also used in shoe stores in continental Europe.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Interesting. We thought it was great fun to see our bones whether we were having shoes fit or not.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
The region where life expectancy is lowest, and in some places declining, begins in West Virginia, runs through the southern Appalachian Mountains and west through the Deep South into North Texas.
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0)
#3. To: go65 (#1)
so what you are saying then is that those areas are doing a better job getting rid of their lazy while the liberals in the rest of the country carry those who can't carry themselves?
#4. To: lucysmom (#0)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#5. To: jwpegler (#4)
No other country in the world has poor fat people.
#6. To: lucysmom (#5)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#7. To: jwpegler (#6)
How much to you weigh???
#8. To: lucysmom (#3)
(Edited)
81.1 years in Fairfax County
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#9. To: jwpegler (#4)
When I used do a lot of business in Japan, the number one request of my Japanese guests was: "take me to see the poor fat people". No other country in the world has poor fat people.
#10. To: lucysmom (#2)
Maybe Social Security won't be a problem after all.
#11. To: mininggold, jwpegler (#9)
#12. To: Badeye, lucysmom (#10)
#13. To: Godwinson (#12)
So your side - the so called conservatives - show you care for life by not doing anything to care for someone's life.....
#14. To: Godwinson (#12)
show you care for life by not doing anything to care for someone's life
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#15. To: jwpegler (#4)
It's sick and wrong...
#16. To: Godwinson (#11)
Maybe the Japanese can hunt American land whales?
#17. To: Godwinson (#12)
until of course they die from lack of health care.
#18. To: lucysmom (#0)
#19. To: CZ82, Godwinson (#17)
So is that because they are too lazy/stupid, or is it because the government has driven up the price of healthcare so much from all their stupid regulations???
#20. To: Godwinson (#12)
So your side - the so called conservatives - show you care for life by not doing anything to care for someone's life.....
#21. To: KellyD (#18)
I guess it all depends on the way of living or the lifestyle.
#22. To: Badeye (#20)
got ANYTHING thats fact based to support this drivel?
#23. To: CZ82, lucysmom (#17)
(Edited)
So is that because they are too lazy/stupid, or is it because the government has driven up the price of healthcare so much from all their stupid regulations???
#24. To: Godwinson (#23)
#25. To: lucysmom (#24)
I remember when shoe stores used fluoroscopy to check the fit of shoes. I wonder if a study has ever been done to determine health risks.
#26. To: lucysmom, mininggold, CZ82 (#24)
#27. To: mininggold (#25)
Later he said he looked into it and said he couldn't find any research data. According to Mom those machines were in almost every sizable shoe store in the thirties.
#28. To: Godwinson (#22)
got ANYTHING thats fact based to support this drivel?
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